New Delhi: 148 Indian students and 38 officials stranded in Turkey after an attempted coup by sections of military are safe, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said.
In a video message sent to Indian TV channels through WhatsApp, the students had said they were in the north-eastern province of Trabzon for the 2016 World Schools Championship that began on July 11 and will end on July 18.
"Our parents called and told us, around three hours ago, that a bomb blast took place in the city of Ankara in Turkey. But there are no problems where we are which is Trabzon," a group of students from Tamil Nadu said in the video message.
Venkatesh, father of Tamil Selvi, said he is worried as there was uncertainty over whether the event would go on. The students are around 400 km away from the location of unrest. Trabzon is over 700 km far from capital Ankara.
Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared he is in control of the country today as loyal military and police forces quashed a coup attempt during a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire that left over 250 people dead and over 1,000 injured
The chaos capped a period of political turmoil in Turkey which critics blamed on Mr Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian rule, which has included a government shake-up, a crackdown on dissidents and opposition media and renewed conflict in the mainly Kurdish areas of the southeast.
In a video message sent to Indian TV channels through WhatsApp, the students had said they were in the north-eastern province of Trabzon for the 2016 World Schools Championship that began on July 11 and will end on July 18.
"Our parents called and told us, around three hours ago, that a bomb blast took place in the city of Ankara in Turkey. But there are no problems where we are which is Trabzon," a group of students from Tamil Nadu said in the video message.
Venkatesh, father of Tamil Selvi, said he is worried as there was uncertainty over whether the event would go on. The students are around 400 km away from the location of unrest. Trabzon is over 700 km far from capital Ankara.
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Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared he is in control of the country today as loyal military and police forces quashed a coup attempt during a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire that left over 250 people dead and over 1,000 injured
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The chaos capped a period of political turmoil in Turkey which critics blamed on Mr Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian rule, which has included a government shake-up, a crackdown on dissidents and opposition media and renewed conflict in the mainly Kurdish areas of the southeast.
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